Bad news: Windows Phone app Joe Belfiore teased has been delayed

We've got some bad news, folks. Remember Joe Belfiore teasing a new Windows Phone app the other day? Unfortunately it turns out that the app isn't quite ready for release yet, so it has been pushed back slightly. Are we any wiser on what to expect? No, but we're still eager to see what Belfiore is getting rather excited about.

Bad news: next-fun-app-release delayed a few days.Still coming, just not today (monday).Sorry!

Boo. Now before anyone attacks Belfiore for teasing and subsequently letting consumers down, he did manage to publish a tweet that details how the app is being developed and published by another company, so details cannot be revealed unless the company in question wishes to announce the app. Makes sense. Still, we're waiting to see what's on the horizon.

While the app has been delayed, we can't imagine it'll be long before we're all able to head on into the Windows Phone store and check it out. Good news? We now know that it won't be US only and Belfiore did tease a second app that could be hitting the store this week, though it's noted that it's difficult to know when developers will hit the publish button.

You all need to read his other tweets. He said something like, it's not a US kind of week. So don't start crying when they you realize it's;
A). Not instagram.
B). Something most of you may not be able to nor want to use.
He mentioned last week, and last night that something was coming for folks outside of the US. What that means? Who knows... BBC iplayer, maybe?

Either way it'll be something popular, that a lot of people have been asking for. Which also means most of you will stil complain about it.

Like it or not, instagram IS going to help windows phone. And instagram is not about the so called crappy filters for god's sake it's the social side. Many pictures were not even applied with the filters, they were edited with another app like snapseed. Instagram got the normal filter which pretty much say your argument of it ruining the photo pretty invalid

Most of the girls I know don't even post pictures on facebook anymore, they constantly post on Instagram, which leaves the girls with Windows Phone absolutely hating it and feeling like they were ripped off with a crappy device. Even though they like everything else about Windows Phone more, the single most important thing to them on a phone today is Instagram.

when people point and laugh at MS and WP users, this is example A. My expectations were tempered when they announced a couple of lackluster games this week, so this other app he mentioned didnt get me too excited. The elephant in the room is instagram. so anything short of that is a disapointment.

Isnt this typical any more? I mean come on...updates dont even roll out on teased schedule and now this. Its common place anymore. Im still on 7.8 so whatever it is I probably wont even get it. Could really careless. If I could use Pandora on my phone would be nice. You know what would be super fun...if they released windows phone 8 update for the older devices like my Lumia 900. That would be the bees knees.

He probably already has the app and wants to test it out first so he can show off it to everyone lol... Wonder if this app will work only for windows phone 8 only? Will it work for 7.5 & 7.8 users too,?

Anyone who is so excited by an app when they have no idea what it will be and then is crushed or angry when there's a couple days delay is simply PATHETIC.

Grow up and realize you can't please everyone... some want to know early, some don't. Ignore it if you don't and it's just like it was never mentioned. Simple.
But most importantly stop whining like a newborn baby and find a cause that has a little more weight and importance. Give maturity a try... it's kind of nice not to we walking around pissed off over nothing all the time. What a miserable existence.

Very silly & embarrassing. I don't care about the app, but the fact that someone from MS tweeted an app would be available and then isn't is the issue. He didn't tweet it out on a whim I assume, so obviously there is a disconnect within MS or between MS & a 3rd party developer. It's like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

I don't think its instagram only because when they launched on android they had their own splash page and signup if you want to be notified when it arrives thing going on. Would people be pleased if we at least KNEW it was coming?

I've been saying the same thing. No matter how many times we say it, there's still going to be the "elite" who say "instagram is gay and a waste of time".
We need huge names like this to bring more people and devs to the platform, everyone wins :)

The people who care that much about Instagram ain't switching. They always want the latest fad app. They'll see that we don't have Vine and won't want to wait, or it will be the newest game that "all of their friends" are playing. Getting Instagram will cure iEnvy for about as long as it will take to square crop, filter and upload a picture of lunch. I bet that I the comments thread of the Instagram announcement, all the criers will shout "about time, now where is _______".

Quit being a baby man... People make mistakes. Yeah he spoke too soon, but it's all because he was under the impression because of the company that it'd be out today. Not his fault -_-. Plus he hyped it up so now people are more excited.

People are simply NEVER happy. People want to know what apps and updates are coming. MS doesn't want to tell exactly because of cry baby reactions like this. But then when they're silent they're hit hard by the "MS isn't making any progress! Silence means WP is failing! The sky is falling!" crowd.

Why can't people just be adults and stop whining about tiny delays and insignificant events? Use your head... is this really a big deal? Very frustrating to see MS raked over the coals no matter what they do.

There are plenty of legitimate WP complaints. But this isn't one of them.

No way, Joe is the guy who single-handedly writes all the WP code. He needs to quit goofing off and get back to work. And those 3rd party devs who are wasting their time writing some mystery app instead of fixing bugs in WP... it's just shameful I tell you. :)

Invertme is right. I was bitching and complaining about my 920 & missing features and apps. Then I got a Tab 2. Man Android is a hot mess, that lags like no tomorrow. I also had a Note 2 for a bit too, just to test those waters. I came sprinting back to WP! We may be missing a few features, but it's not as much as people whine about (my former whining included). Those functions will get here and I have no problem waiting anymore. It's much better than going to Android's lag or Apple's little phones. Just my opinion.

That's it, THAT'S IT! This is the baw that stroked the camel's ass. I mean, stroke that baked the camel... I'm throwing my Windows phone under the bus. I'm going with that new Samsung Lumina 950 running that new OS - Lemon meringue pie, v1427.1.2.9.2. I hear it's badass.

You forgot a signature to your comment: " -- sent from my macho garage, while high-fiving my buddies"
Look, I don't care for Instagram either nor am I gay, but have some respect for others for crying out loud.

Telling someone to "stop being offended so easily" is a massive steaming pile of bullshit. Maybe in your head it somehow justifies your selfish behavior, and makes you feel okay about having a complete lack of respect for other people. But in reality it just makes you part of the problem, not the other way around.

Hahahaha if I was easily offended I would take offense to you thinking you know anything about me. What I do know is it is easier to change oneself then someone else. Thus my making myself tougher and having my self worth coming from the truth I know about me, leads little left for someone to try and tear down by there words. Therefore people should not be so easily offended and those who seek to tear someone down will have little to work with have a good day sir/mam.

Good for you that you have thick skin. I'm sure many gays, blacks, or any other group with derogatory terms to describe them have thick skin to most stuff as well. Doesn't mean the language used is right or not inflammatory. I don't care to hear anyone using derogatory names in reference to black people. I try to show the same courtesy for others

I agree with you that such terms should not be used. My only point is that those to which such words take aim to harm should not be so easily offended. One cannot escape the fact that if the words held no impact they would stop being used by the ignorant that use them.

I dont like racist homhobic bashing of any kind but if you call something "gay" and using ot to mean lame or stupid and not ones sexual preference you need to spell it right.
Ghey= to describe ones lameness or lack of skills, as in online video gaming. example, camping behind that box is ghey.

Just a couple of notes...
1. It is homophobic
2. Homosexuality is not a race, so comments made against cannot be racist.
3. Ghey is not a word or a leet spelling. No one finds the need to really add letters to a 3 letter word.
Everyone is entitled to ones own opinion. This is the American way. If he wishes to be ignorant that is his right

We had a gay app last week. They can only give us so much happiness at one time. Joe knows how to play the game. He spreads it out just enough. Then after some teasing and playing he sticks it in just at the right time. Joe, you a bad boy... ;)

Mildly humorous, but seeing how disgustingly homophobic and uncaring of others the community is on here is...disheartening. At least our mods aren't like this, and hopefully get around to cleaning up these comments.

Typical Microsoft, hype something for days and then fail, I am getting rather tyred of this marketing BS from them.
Great products that get obliterated by shit competitors like .... because they can't get their marketing together. When will MS finally learn?

Maybe if You could read you would see that it was Joe Belfiore who was hyping the app release for days and as far as I know he is from MS.
The bottom line is don't announce an exact date if you are not 100% sure. And I am also annoyed at all this cloak and dagger shit with every single release of a new MS thing. Just come out and say what you are planning to relese/update give a rough time estimate (e.g. which month to expect it in) and be done with it.
I don't see the point of keeping a product name or a future update a secret until the last possible second.
/end of rant

Yeah, it's so darned awful when a guy does like people want (give advanced notice to app release dates), only to have someone else do something wrong. Microsoft's just so terrible because developers missed their intended launch date.

You know, because nothing in the history of the universe has had delays before, and Microsoft has never released something on the day intended.